A Super Obscure Patent Now Blocks 3D Printing Of Weapons, Food, Prosthetics, Even Human Skinhttp://www.businessinsider.com/new-super-obscure-patent-blocks-3d-printing-of-weapons-food-prosthetics-even-human-skin-2012-10/comments
en-usWed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500Tue, 31 Mar 2015 18:18:02 -0400Geoffrey Ingersollhttp://www.businessinsider.com/c/507da05569bedda943000001kallistiTue, 16 Oct 2012 13:58:45 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/507da05569bedda943000001
Digital restrictions management (DRM) limits user freedom by digitally
locking files to certain formats and platforms. DRM hinders liberation of
individuals and society, and consumers should stop paying for devices and
files that are specifically engineered to monitor them and restrict their
use. DRM is infecting electronics all around the world -- it makes things
more expensive and complicated for the user.
Thankfully there's already a 3d printer that doesn't limit it's potential
by introducing DRM. The LulzBot AO-100 3D Printer is certified by the Free
Software Foundation to respect your freedoms -- the hardware design is
freely licensed, it's software is freely licensed, and it's documentation
is freely licensed.
Read more at defectivebydesign.org and fsf.org/ryfhttp://www.businessinsider.com/c/507a40ff69bedd155e000015bobinsherwoodSun, 14 Oct 2012 00:35:11 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/507a40ff69bedd155e000015
If you create something unique like a paper clip, you can obtain a patent. If you invent a completely novel way to stitch the 'thumb pocket' on a glove, you can obtain a patent. These are 2 real patented inventions.
You CANNOT patent or copyright predictions otherwise Sci-Fi writers would own everything. Arthur C. Clarke does not get royalties for having predicted the advent of satellites. Neither does Robert A. Heinlein, H.G. Wells, Jules Verne, Isaac Asimov, etc... for all their visions of the NOW that they predicted decades ago!http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5079cd1b69bedd385f000003Pax DickinsonSat, 13 Oct 2012 16:20:43 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5079cd1b69bedd385f000003
+1http://www.businessinsider.com/c/50790c16ecad04c33a00000eAqua BuddhaSat, 13 Oct 2012 02:37:10 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/50790c16ecad04c33a00000e
Who is John Galt?http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5079088feab8eab66700001d3D printing food WTF?Sat, 13 Oct 2012 02:22:07 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5079088feab8eab66700001d
Whyyyyyy???
What good is a $20 twinkie?
3D printers do not run on magic.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5078f26269bedd586400000bCooped EvilSat, 13 Oct 2012 00:47:30 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5078f26269bedd586400000b
Or even less alarming: "A Super Obscure Patent Now Blocks LEGAL 3D Printing of COPYRIGHTED Weapons, Food, Prosthetics, or Skin."http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5078af696bb3f7136b000027Bodine WebFri, 12 Oct 2012 20:01:45 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5078af696bb3f7136b000027
That reminds me, I gotta download the latest season of always sunny. I love that show.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/507879ddeab8ea5a3a000011All hail our multinational corporate overlordsFri, 12 Oct 2012 16:13:17 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/507879ddeab8ea5a3a000011
This law will be useless because you can't prevent people who are willing to share knowledge for free.
If someone makes open source designs and releases those designs to the internet free of charge, you won't be able to stop the propagation of that data.
If you want to prevent people from building dangerous items, a government is better keeping the populous fat and stupid by encouraging the use of drugs and alcohol, subsidizing the production of unhealthy food, and flooding society with brainless, lowest common denominator entertainment.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/507879576bb3f7e40900001aMurlocFri, 12 Oct 2012 16:11:03 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/507879576bb3f7e40900001a
yeah right.
Let me know how the music/movie/videogame DRM worked out. Oh wait, it didn't.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/507877fd69bedd2342000005Jeshua LacockFri, 12 Oct 2012 16:05:17 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/507877fd69bedd2342000005
Uhhhh, this patent does not "Block 3D printing of weapons, food, ...", etc.
It is apparently a patent for DRM protection of said files. That is a *HUGE* difference.
Link bait?http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5078704d6bb3f7fb76000008BrettFri, 12 Oct 2012 15:32:29 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5078704d6bb3f7fb76000008
I'm going to patent rayguns. That way when someone performs the hard work to develop one, I can sue the s#!+ out of them and make $$$.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/50786d8669beddec27000010flaunttnualfFri, 12 Oct 2012 15:20:38 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/50786d8669beddec27000010
Patents are bullshit. To hell with them all.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/50786b5cecad04e2120000033pl3Fri, 12 Oct 2012 15:11:24 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/50786b5cecad04e212000003
whatever... i will patent patents and Printers Printing 3D printers which print 3D toiletpaper. I want to patent your nose. So F*** You.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/50786acaecad04dd12000007Pax DickinsonFri, 12 Oct 2012 15:08:58 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/50786acaecad04dd12000007
The iTunes store existed with DRM, and so could 3D printing. It might not be an "information must be free" fanatic's ideal situation, but it's not as though the possibility of DRM "blocks" 3D printing as a whole.
Mr. Enigmax is exaggerating this because he believes that requiring someone to pay for the design of an object they'd like to print is an unacceptable tyranny. He's entitled to that opinion but to claim that such a requirement would end any possibility of mainstream 3D printing is laughable.
The title of this article should properly read "A Super Obscure Patent Now Blocks 3D Printing Of COPYRIGHTED Weapons, Food, Prosthetics, Even Human Skin", which isn't nearly as alarming.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/50786a04ecad040c11000003Patents mean nothing anymoreFri, 12 Oct 2012 15:05:40 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/50786a04ecad040c11000003
3D printing is entrenched in hacker culture, no one is going to stop fiddling with their printers. The moment someone does mess with the hacker's printers they are going to get hacked into oblivion.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/507869b26bb3f7066a00000emendeltechFri, 12 Oct 2012 15:04:18 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/507869b26bb3f7066a00000e
im sure the ppl in china and hongkong are beside themselves over this patent.